In technology, there's only one thing I'm absolutely certain of: Your hard (or solid-state) disk is going to fail. I promise that it will cease to function someday. You won't know when that day is, but when it comes, all the files you've ever saved on that disk will be gone in an instant. I know you've heard this before, but apparently some of you aren't listening. Over the past few weeks I've heard far more tales of data-loss woe than usual. So allow me to offer what I consider to be prudent backup strategies for today's world. Next week I'll tell you about three excellent backup applications I use. First, I'm a fan of OS X's built-in Time Machine backup technology, which runs on all of the Macs in my house.

Cloud Backo's insight:

That's true, except we like CloudBacko backup software more than Time Machine, because of its bullet proof encryption for protecting data privacy on the cloud.

Business continuity is the concept that every business owner / CEO needs to aware of. However, not all of them care about as most of them would think it's the responsible area of their CTO. Okay, that's fine, but if you're business doesn't have a CTO, then you better take a look at these steps that can avoid your business from trouble when data loss disaster happens.

Cloud backup is now part of companies’ backup strategy. Cloud backup offers tremendous potential to free up system admins from complex and onerous storage management, system complexity, and increasing administration workloads. Research shows that new and innovative software technologies are accelerating cloud adoption by making backups: simple, automated, integrated, support faster recovery and protect sensitive data.Cloud backup is the growing trend

According to the 2014 Information Week Backup Technologies Survey, corporations are adopting and planning to use cloud storage. The study by Forrester also shows that cloud backup is a good strategy in corporate backup plan.

1. Which backup technologies are used in your organization?

2. Which backup technologies do you plan to use within the next 18 months?

RecoveryPoint for VMs is all software and will work with any type of storage, EMC says

Cloud Backo's insight:

"VMware administrators can use RecoverPoint for VMs to set up replication and automatic disaster recovery for anything from a single VM to an entire site, according to EMC. It can also make ongoing data protection easier to manage by automatically configuring and changing the backup and recovery settings for VMs as they are created, modified, and moved, EMC says." What is it?

CloudBacko, a fast growing cloud backup software vendor, today announced the release of version 1.11. This version comes with the support of the latest Windows 10, VMware ESXi 6 and vCenter 6, allowing businesses and home users to backup Windows System, virtual machine, database, server, PC and Mac to public cloud storage as well as local and USB hard drive. Besides, the version also supports Microsoft OneDrive for Business as the backup destination in addition to personal OneDrive.

Cloud Backo's insight:

There's many free backup software out there, but this one can combine unlimited free cloud storage accounts like Google Drive and OneDrive into one big pooled storage for backup. Like it?

If you need to backup the virtual machines in your VMware ESXi (either paid or free version), CloudBacko is a low-cost high-performance alternative for you. For paid ESXi, you can use CloudBacko Pro to backup unlimited VMs in an ESXi host for only $138 (one-off perpetual price). For free ESXi, it's only $39 as the dedicated module for ESXi free version is Free of charge. Here are some tips for using CloudBacko to backup your VMware ESXi.

Google Drive now offers 15GB free cloud storage space for each user account. It also offers free app for syncing files across devices. But it is not designed for backup purpose. It would be 10x better if you can:

1x. Combine multiple Google Drive accounts as one big pool of cloud storage.2x. Add more to the pool when you’re running out of space.3x. Encrypt the filenames of your data on your computer before uploading to the combined.Google Drive cloud storage, so that no one will know what you have backed up.4x. Encrypt the contents of your data too.5x. Use an unbreakable encrypting key that contains a bunch of upper case and lower case characters, numbers as well as special characters to encrypt your data.6x. Backup only the changes within a file so as to minimize the time required.7x. Keep multiple versions of your backup data so that you can always choose what version to restore.8x. Configure the bandwidth for backup so that it won’t consume all your available bandwidth.9x. Frequently check the data integrity of your backup to ensure restorability.10x. Besides files, also backup VMware, Hyper-V, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL Database, and other databases that you have.

Can’t do these on your own? Get a CloudBacko. One-off price for desktop is $9 only. Server backup license starts from $39.

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